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I just purchased 50 x50 ml x2ml rhs for $70 cut to length. approx 8.1 mtrs.I have built my stand and christened today. The best thing I ever did. :lol: cheers Leachim

Hi Edak, What a piece of art . Well done . I did have a look at your piccies and what a top job . Have you looked at putting elbows on the outlet side of the pump ? The reason I ask is , I would be concerned with the hose being bent so much it may have a tendancy to collapse under the...

I don't have many friends but they keep asking for more . I met a young bloke from Munich when the missus and I went to Eildon for easter . She mentions that I home brew . So the following week he rocks up expecting to see how a beer is made and shit himself when he saw the herms rig . I said to...

You could always simplify it by checking out alenuts scroll down until you see brutus 2.0 now that is a great system . A brewer I know built this system with a herms and PID controller and it also has great efficiency . Cheers leachim

Your bulk priming is good . However did you take into account the temp of your beer when you added the dextrose . I bulk prime all the time and only ever had one batch that had low carbonation . The temp was around 21-22 * C when I primed it and at this temp a lot of the Co2 had been released...

I picked up an offcut of 2mm ss perforated plate for $50 from Geordi in Cheltenham . I haven't used it yet it is 505mm x 80mm . If this suites pm me and you can have it for what I paid for it .Or give Geordi a ring .

Any form of immersion heater in the mash tun would have to be constantly moving to avoid burning the mash .I would stick to using it as a heater for your HLT or some form of ghetto heat exchanger .

I had an issue with an immersion heater that burnt the crap out of a rye beer . Two years on it still has that burnt flavour .

Black IPA

Hi adz , I have the exact same freezer it holds two kegs and if you add a collar it will hold four kegs , two more on the step .

Quite possibly that amount will make bottle bombs . I bulk primed a wheat beer with 280 gms and had a few bottles explode . The temp was around 17-18 *C which meant it had a high residual of Co2 in the fermenter . If you have fermented at 22*C which is too high for this style as well as Ales it...

Yeah early last year had three bad batches of Notto and lost nearly 70 ltrs . Then the company came out in Nov 2011 and admitted that the yeast was not viable .

+1 winkle

I have watched the how to on cutting the tops out of the kegs . To me it seems to be a lot of dicking around to create a jig when all I did was use the guard on the grinder as a guide simple really .

A ferulic rest is a mash temp rest . So your temp at dough in should be around the 30 or 40 whatever temp for it is and then after x amount of time at that temp you raise the temp to 50* C for another rest if you want and then to 66*C for the rest of the mesh schedule . That is the way I would...